Thought for the day (Page 105)

Every day we post a Thought for the day written by someone within the circuit. Some are very light hearted and some are very deep theologically with all bases between covered.

We hope these will encourage, uplift and make you reflect but most of all we hope you enjoy reading these small daily snippets and take some inspiration on your daily journey

“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go” (Genesis 28:15)

The only way is……

Thought for the day on 2 wheels!(This series of Thoughts for the Day were inspired whilst taking a week’s break in Eastbourne with my friend Rev Rach Ward, a Minister in the Leeds South and West Circuit, previously a Local Preacher in the Ipswich Circuit) 3. The only way is…… Our 3rd trip out on…

The God who sees me….

Genesis 16 v 13. She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid, was being treated unkindly by Sarah, so she fled into the wilderness. As Hagar stood beside a spring in that desolate and…

What is Normal?

We were fortunate to have tickets to an open-air performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream staged in Framlingham Castle this week. Doors opened at 6pm for a 7.30 performance to allow time to picnic. I looked at the set for Shakespeare’s well-known play, performed over so many years in all sorts of places. I contemplated…

TV Snobbery

Way back in 1975 when I first started working, I was employed by a textiles wholesaler working in their haberdashery department. I was the only lad at sixteen working in a department with six ladies all old enough to be my mother, or maybe even my grandmother.  They were quite an entertaining little gang and…

Support is a wonderful virtue.

Of the many remarkable stories to come out of the Second World War, one of the most ingenious improvisations in a situation of extreme danger and difficulty must surely be the story of the tanker Ohio, recounted in detail by Sir Max Hastings in his book ‘Operation Pedestal’. The island of Malta was isolated and…

Capture the right moment

 Isaiah 40 v 31. but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Astronaut Michael Collins described the problem of trying to link two orbiting space vehicles. When two airplanes’ rendezvous for an in-flight…

Now you see it, now you don’t

Thought for the day on 2 wheels! (This series of Thoughts for the Day were inspired whilst taking a week’s break in Eastbourne with my friend Rev Rach Ward, a Minister in the Leeds South and West Circuit, previously a Local Preacher in the Ipswich Circuit) On day 2 of our cycling break in Eastbourne,…

Roses

Last summer this rose put on so much growth and the blooms were so heavy that several the vine wires that support it were broken. In the winter I was determined to get the better of it; the renewed wires are stronger and from the outset the necessary support was in place so the flowers…